Robert A. Iger

On Monday morning, Merck & Co. Chief Executive Ken Frazier resigned from President Trump’s manufacturing jobs council to protest Trump’s deficient condemnation of the racist violence in Charlottesville, Va. Since then, membership on Trump’s Potemkin Village-like CEO boards has begun to look like something of a litmus test for American corporations and business organizations.

Three executives who sat on President Donald Trump's manufacturing council have quit following the events in Charlottesville, Va., and the president's slow crawl to explicitly condemn white supremacists.
The chief executive of pharmaceutical giant...

Walt Disney Co. will launch two Netflix-like streaming services — one for sports and another for films and television shows — in one of the boldest moves by an entertainment company to address the changing media landscape.
The stand-alone subscription...

Despite some stumbles by President Trump, chief executives of America’s largest companies are more optimistic about the economy than they have been in three years, according to survey results released Tuesday.
The CEOs remain hopeful about a sweeping...

The typical CEO at the biggest U.S. companies got an 8.5 percent raise last year, raking in $11.5 million in salary, stock and other compensation last year, according to a study by executive data firm Equilar for The Associated Press. That's the biggest...

Walt Disney Co. reported an 11% jump in profit in its second fiscal quarter, boosted by several hit films and growth in its theme parks operation.
But the company’s closely watched media networks unit, which includes ESPN, had a tough quarter....

For the second year in a row, Disney may have another "Star Wars" hit on its hands. With this season's "Rogue One" debuting Dec. 16, the company is already poised to sell $130 million in U.S. pre-release tickets, according to early estimates. If those...

Walt Disney Co. has planted its biggest flag with the opening of a third resort destination in Asia.
The Shanghai Disney Resort, which opened in June, cost at least $5.5 billion and sprawls across almost 1,000 acres of former farmland. It joins a...

The grand dame of daytime television drama, Agnes Nixon liked to say that “everyone's life is a soap opera.” For proof, she offered up her own.
She had an “abandonment complex” because her parents divorced soon after she was born. Growing up in an...

One is an entertainment giant famous for exacting tight control over its content.
The other is a tech firm whose commitment to free speech has earned it a reputation as a hub for news and a haven for online harassment.
Together, they make for a...

One is an entertainment giant famous for exacting tight control over its content.
The other is a tech firm whose commitment to free speech has earned it a reputation as a hub for news and a haven for online harassment.
Together, they make for a...

Though Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema’s ’“The Conjuring 2” ghosted all of its competition at the weekend box office, all eyes are on the performance of Universal Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ “Warcraft.” Though the video game adaptation grossed...

For years, Walt Disney Co. adhered to a carefully orchestrated process to choose a successor to Chairman and Chief Executive Robert Iger.
In 2015, the Burbank company elevated longtime executive Thomas Staggs to the No. 2 role, a move widely...

Visitors who enter the 194,000-square-foot digital studio facility on the campus of ESPN are greeted by touch screens that can access every commercial in the long-running “This Is SportsCenter” campaign.The display honors the flagship sports highlights...

Leo Perrero had worked for the Walt Disney Co. in Orlando for more than 10 years, helping to run the point-of-sale systems at Walt Disney World and its other local parks, until late 2014. That's when he learned that his job, like 300 others, was going...

The next big Walt Disney Co. theme park expansion -- the Shanghai Disney Resort -- now has a grand-opening date: June 16.
The only Disney theme park on mainland China had originally been scheduled to open in December 2015, but was delayed because...

In a glass-walled room high above Park Avenue, NFL executives and billionaire team owners huddled around a long conference table this week to solve a problem that has plagued the league for two decades: how to get professional football back to Los...

When Walt Disney Co. put up $4 billion to buy "Star Wars" creator Lucasfilm in 2012, Wall Street wasn't sure it was a good bet.
To some analysts, it seemed like a lot of money to pay for a company whose signature movie franchise had gone on hiatus...

When Walt Disney Co. put up $4 billion to buy "Star Wars" creator Lucasfilm in 2012, Wall Street wasn't sure it was a good bet.
To some analysts, it seemed like a lot of money to pay for a company whose signature movie franchise had gone on hiatus...